I’m currently educating myself about racism and anti-racism, and I keep reading that “race is a social construct”. I see how much subjective social views condition our ideas of different races. And yet, people from different places have certain traits that are quite obvious, and shared in common. If I’m not mistaken, that can apply to more than just visible things – things like susceptibility or resistance to certain diseases, if I’m not mistaken. Obviously no one deserves to be mistreated for any of these traits. But what I’m reading and what I seem to experience don’t add up. Anyone able to clarify things for me?
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Basically race is only what the society makes it.
For example, in America’s past, Germans and Irish were seen as being different race than the Anglo-Saxons and thus suffered racism from the Anglo-Saxons.
Now a days they’re all labeled as white, and don’t experience the same kind of racism that they did back then.
Hardly anything changed about the people themselves, but the construct of race changed.
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